Lexicographical Neighbors of Poshteens
Literary usage of Poshteens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1901)
"... coats called poshteens, that are one of the chief exports of Afghanistan, the
party of fourteen filed out of the fort, ..."
2. Lhasa: An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the by Perceval Landon (1905)
"poshteens, i. 53. 140 ; plantation at (ill.), ii. Potala, i. 23, 55, 258, 305.
Potala Lama. See DALAI LAMA. Potala Palace, i. 348, 373 ; ii. 176, 218, 222. ..."
3. Across Coveted Lands: Or, A Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1903)
"... followed by a cluster of venerable old men, some in long yellow skin poshteens,
others in smart waistcoats covered with gold and silver embroidery. ..."
4. The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900 by Thomas Hungerford Holdich (1901)
"However there was no time to spare, and in the early hours of the grey morning
we struggled, weighted with sheepskin poshteens and all the other necessaries ..."
5. The Long Road to Baghdad by Edmund Candler (1919)
"But it was noted that they provided themselves with warm poshteens against an
Arctic cold, that they had forsaken the study of Arabic for Persian, ..."
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